Note that the default username for mysql in WampServer is root, and the default password is empty. Choose these and use the defaults for the host, database name, and tables prefix. Then click next:

Click continue:

If you didn’t install php extensions, like I didn’t, then you get this:

These extensions are easy to install from the WampServer menu:

Go to PHP > PHP extensions. Check the name of each missing extension, 1 at a time. (It appears that WampServer will restart after each install). When you’re done, go back to your browser and click Reload at the very bottom of the page.

Hopefully, you see this at the bottom of your page:

Click Continue. The system will chug away for a while. Be patient. If all goes well, you’ll get another screen looking something like this:

Click Continue. On the next page you simply fill in information about the admin account.

After that you fill in other settings for your site. And TADA, you are done:

Considering that I have never used WampServer or Moodle before, the fact that I could install this in about an hour is pretty impressive to me.

I certainly could have done that, but I was developing for a Moodle install that was running on Apache in production. And in my particular case, setting correct Apache settings was a key part of what I needed to test and get right.

i installed moodle 2.5 . it got complete package with xammp . it is working properly BUT i dnt know how access the database. i tried using “localhost/xampp” but it’s not working , i dnt know how to access my database .. PLEASE HELP !